Original Contact Sheet of Portraits by Burt Goldblatt

A rare original photographer's contact sheet of 12 different portraits of the American novelist and Beat poet by photographer Burt Goldblatt. The images come from a photo shoot for the cover of the 1959 Hanover LP "Jack Kerouac - Blues and Haikus" with Zoot Sims and Al Cohn, and show Kerouac shadowed against a blank wall, writing by a window and several plants; and smoking next to a window. Some heavy diagonal creases; somewhat irregularly trimmed, with the images at the right only partially visible; some soiling and water damage to the verso; overall good. 10 x 8 inches (25 x 20 cm). NB: This item is copyrighted (c)Burt Goldblatt/CTSIMAGES and purchase of this item does not include reproduction rights of any kind without permission.

Photographer, designer and author Burt Goldblatt is best-known for designing the covers of jazz albums. Among those he captured on record covers were Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, and Charles Mingus. A regular visitor to jazz clubs, he often visited musicians at work to photograph them, and was well-known by jazz musicians. The New York Times wrote that his style "encompassed black-and-white portraits and studio photographs, inspired by film noir, as well as gritty street scenes, often abstractly overlaid with flat colors, evoking a sense of urban night life. Expressionistic line drawings of performers in action were also in vogue." (17682)

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